Home - Coral Gables Gazette

Friday, May 8, 2026

A well-maintained golf green with a white flagstick at the center, surrounded by tall royal palm trees and broad-canopied tropical trees under a partly cloudy sky. Several mid-rise and high-rise residential buildings are visible in the background, framing the urban setting of the Granada Golf Course in Coral Gables, Florida.

Commission preserves Granada golf tee times but rejects discounts and membership changes

NEWS

A wide shot of the Coral Gables City Commission meeting room viewed from the audience, showing five commissioners seated at a long black-draped dais with Florida and other flags visible in the background, and several members of the public seated in the foreground.

Mayor, commissioners silence resident despite repeated warnings from city attorney

May 7, 2026

The exterior of Fritz and Franz Bierhaus at the corner of Merrick Way in Coral Gables, showing the restaurant's outdoor plaza with white and red umbrellas, palm trees, and two flagpoles flying the American and another flag. The Mediterranean-style building behind the plaza is visible through the tree canopy.

Mayor pulls yellow card on World Cup watch parties at Fritz and Franz – for now

May 7, 2026

The Coral Gables City Commission voted Tuesday to hire outside counsel to pursue additional records from the Coral Gables War Memorial Youth Center Association.

Coral Gables moves closer to suing Youth Center Association

May 7, 2026

OPINION

A packed stadium section filled with fans waving American flags and English St. George's Cross flags, many dressed in red, white, and blue, cheering during an international soccer match.

EDITORIAL: A city hosting FIFA should not fear the World Cup

May 7, 2026

A pie chart titled “General Fund Operating Revenue by Type” shows Coral Gables’ 2025–26 budget distribution: property taxes account for $137.5 million (63.2%), other city fees and taxes $72.6 million (33.3%), and intergovernmental revenue $7.6 million (3.5%).

EDITORIAL: A budget built on growth meets a changing reality

May 4, 2026

New construction accounted for $45 million of Coral Gables’ $1.33 billion increase. (Photo: Robin and Robert Burr, Great Gables Guide)

EDITORIAL: At 101, Coral Gables begins its second century as a different city

April 30, 2026

ARTS & LEISURE

Illustrated collage promoting Mother’s Day events in and around Coral Gables, featuring a vintage ocean liner brunch, a choir concert inside a church, a mother and daughter craft activity, a garden picnic, and live music along Miracle Mile at night.

From garden picnics to choral music, here are ways to celebrate Mother’s Day

May 7, 2026

A black and white still from the 1926 silent film The General, showing Buster Keaton in period clothing lying across the cow catcher at the front of a steam locomotive, his expression characteristically deadpan as he balances on the wooden frame with the engine behind him.

Buster Keaton’s ‘The General’ flopped in 1926. A century later, it ranks among cinema’s greatest films.

May 7, 2026

Category winners at the 2025 Young Talent Big Dreams Competition congratulate Grand Prize winner Tamerlan Guliyev (in white shirt) and his victory.

Finals of Young Talent Big Dreams take center stage at Actors’ Playhouse

May 7, 2026